Pat
was born in 1952 in West Orange, New Jersey. She
grew up next door to a cemetery and has distinct
memories of watching funerals from her bedroom
window. She attended Catholic school through her
first two years of college and retains a great
fondness for the incense and imagery of the Catholic
Church.

At
her grammar school, Our Lady of Lourdes, Pat watched
the films "Bernadette of
Lourdes" and "The Life of Christ" probably hundreds
of times as one or the other was shown whenever inclement
weather prevented lunchtime recess outside. These
films had an enormous impact, as Pat assumed that
both films were documentaries.

Pat perfected the art of leaving her body at an early age, a skill she employed
regularly in adolescence in lieu of access to more conventional means of altering
consciousness. Pat's interest Judaism led her to convert to that faith in 1979.
After marrying, she and her husband John traveled to Israel where they lived on
Kibbutz Ein Gedi for six months.

Pat
became adept at traveling into the space where all images reside, what C.G. Jung
calls the collective unconscious. Eventually art making became her preferred path
back and forth between the spiritual and material worlds.

Pat has lived for many years with her husband John and daughter Adina in Oak Park, IL and while they still maintain a presence in Oak Park, their center of gravity has shifted to a home in Ojai, California. Pat's research in co-creating with nature via the Studio Process takes place on their property and in the nearby foothills of the Los Padres mountains. Pat and Adina continue to collaborate on creative projects, including combining the Studio Process with the Jewish text study method of chevruta. Their first endeavor was studying the text of Shemot (Book of Exodus) with the intention of surfacing the untold stories of the women characters. Adina, currently a fourth year rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Boston, MA, is actively teaching the Studio Process in many Jewish educational venues as a means to generate new commentary on traditional sacred texts.